The Rosicrucian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDCDEE A FFGHIHA A JJKJKJJJ LLMNMNO JJPQ PQRR| I | A |
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| The tripod flared with a purple spark | B |
| And the mist hung emerald in the dark | B |
| Now he stooped to the lilac flame | C |
| Over the glare of the amber embers | D |
| Thrice to utter no earthly name | C |
| Thrice like a mind that half remembers | D |
| Bathing his face in the magic mist | E |
| Where the brilliance burned like an amethyst | E |
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| II | A |
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| 'Sylph whose soul was born of mine | F |
| Born of the love that made me thine | F |
| Once more flash on my eyes Again | G |
| Be the loved caresses taken | H |
| Lip to lip let our forms remain | I |
| Here in the circle sense awaken | H |
| Ere spirit meet spirit the flesh laid by | A |
| Let me touch thee and let me die ' | - |
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| III | A |
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| Sunset heavens may burn but never | J |
| Know such splendor There bloomed an ever | J |
| Opaline orb where the sylphid rose | K |
| A shape of luminous white diviner | J |
| White than the essence of light that sows | K |
| The moons and suns through space and finer | J |
| Than radiance born of a shooting star | J |
| Or the wild Aurora that streams afar | J |
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| IV | - |
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| 'Look on the face of the soul to whom | L |
| Thou givest thy soul like added perfume | L |
| Thou who heard'st me who long had prayed | M |
| Waiting alone at morning's portal | N |
| Thus on thy lips let my lips be laid | M |
| Love who hast made me all immortal | N |
| Give me thine arms now Come and rest | O |
| Weariness out on my beaming breast ' | - |
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| V | - |
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| Was it her soul or the sapphire fire | J |
| That sang like the note of a seraph's lyre | J |
| Out of her mouth there fell no word | P |
| She spake with her soul as a flower speaketh | Q |
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| Fragrant messages none hath heard | P |
| Which the sense divines when the spirit seeketh | Q |
| And he seemed alone in a place so dim | R |
| That the spirit's face who was gazing at him | R |
| For its burning eyes he could not see | - |
| Then he knew he had died that she and he | - |
| Were one and he saw that this was she | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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